Tag Archives: Virginia Circuit Courts

In this suit involving competing claims to life insurance proceeds, a Norfolk Circuit Court holds that decedent’s widow, who was replaced by decedent’s daughter as his guardian and conservator, could be removed by the daughter as a beneficiary on decedent’s ...

A Norfolk Circuit Court preparing to try homeowners’ claims against defendant installers of defective Chinese drywall will exclude evidence of negligence by other defendants who may have settled their claims in multi-district litigation in federal court and will prohibit installer ...

Although a father presented evidence about his attempts to find a job since he was most recently laid off as a mental health counselor, the Roanoke County Circuit Court will impute income of $41,000 per year to the father in ...

In this contract dispute over defendants, a tenant and guarantor, having failed to sign a lease for and departure from plaintiff landlord’s auto recycling business, a Roanoke County Circuit Court says defendants waited too long to file a motion to ...

Although the parties’ choice-of-law clause calls for application of California law, a Norfolk Circuit Court says the choice-of-law provision will not allow plaintiff tax preparation service to sue defendant bank for promissory estoppel, a claim that Virginia law does not ...

An Augusta County Circuit Court overturns a state agency’s denial of an adoption assistance subsidy to a family that took in an infant, with the intent to adopt him, but who were stymied by the agency’s decision that the family ...

In this litigation involving a 67-year-old closely held mining business that the Buckingham County Circuit Court ordered to be broken up and parceled out after a finding of the company’s oppression of minority shareholders, the court makes further orders to ...

A Fairfax Circuit Court denies petitioner relief on a habeas corpus petition or a writ of coram vobis, in which he asserts a claim based on Padilla v. Kentucky. Petitioner is a Peruvian citizen and legal permanent resident of the ...

A Rappahannock County Circuit Court grants a widow’s motion for partial summary judgment recognizing her right to all testator husband’s personal property and real estate “currently” in the testator’s name, interpreted as property owned at the time of the testator’s ...